Word: unread
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost $14.6 million and 50,000 readers as the result of a bitter eight-month pressmen's strike that ended in February. So the owner, F.P. Publications (the Toronto Globe and Mail and six other Canadian dailies), decided that with the balance sheet red and the broadsheet unread, the Star was better off dead...
...Adidas and proceeds to peel off her shoes, socks and sweaters, revealing her unhealthy, banana-colored skin. Having bravely ventured this far, she risks a glance at the other guilty ones. To her astonishment, Harvard beach is littered with uninhabited tennis shoes, crewneck sweaters and T-shirts--even with unread textbooks and blank paper passively but menacingly there. It appears people will do anything to feel the warm caress of the sun on their creepy, winter-whitened, fish-belly flesh. On her right, a young man who had been complaining about his work, hoping to impress the girl next...
Your threnody for the financially wrecked freelance-writer industry is accurate. However, I believe you missed the most important problem of the impoverished freelance writer. Rather than the low pay, it is the unprofessional attitude of editors. Queries remain unread for weeks and months. Agreements are reneged on. And there is a growing insistence that writers spend time and money producing an article on speculation, without the flimsiest of guarantees...
...Baraheni's memoirs of prison leave us wondering--as they are meant to do--what became of the others in the Komite. What of the women who sang to keep up the spirits of the other prisoners? What of the man under torture because SAVAK's agents found an unread copy of "The Communist Manifesto" in his room? Like Baraheni, they have nothing to confess, nothing to offer their torturers but a denial of their existence...
...press spokesmen to take the initiative in announcing U.S. positions on foreign policy matters. In the past, the spokesmen were prepared each day with as many as 40 responses, but only issued the ones requested by reporters. If the right questions were not asked, prepared comments were returned unread to the briefing folders...